From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 21 07:11:28 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B02316A421 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 07:11:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (sigma.octantis.com.au [207.44.188.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23F4E43D5C for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 07:11:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 14585 invoked from network); 21 Jul 2005 17:11:26 +1000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.13.3?) (202.59.110.3) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 21 Jul 2005 17:11:26 +1000 Message-ID: <42DF4A96.1080305@meijome.net> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:11:18 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Bootstrapping Raid 5 w/GEOM X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 07:11:28 -0000 Hi all, I have a box with 4 x 120 GB EIDE drives which I want to convert to FreeBSD 5.4 ( it's an old SNAP 4500 from Snap Appliance, now owned by Adaptec, running a custom build of Linux) I want to setup software Raid 5 , and I want it to affect ALL partitions, including / (so if any one of the drives fails, it will still boot up properly). I am planning on using GEOM, but open to suggestions. I've been searching and cant find any pointers on how to set this up properly. I've been reading http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ , but this is works for RAID 1. Could anyone offer any insights / ideas / pointers (or step by step if you so feel inclined to :-) ) on how to set this up? Thanks in advance, Beto